AeornecaetEs.—Lord Chief Justice Tenterden decided in the Court of King's

Bench, a few days since, that apothecaries are entitled to charge for attendance upon patients. This decision relieves this class of medical men from the neces- sity of procuring a remuneration for their time and attendance through the me- dium of enormous charges for unnecessary drugs.

CHEVALIER ALDINI'S Experumearrs.—There was a very full meeting on Thurs- day night of the members of the ,Royal Society; sad some curious experiments I/ which any one may breathe freely in the fiercest flames. of the day. The followingis a model. For Itlr. Moore it is too late, but we i A new locomotive engine, called the Wildfire, and built at Mr. Robert Ste. strongly recommend it to Mr: Campbell's attention.—" We presume that most of / phenson's latindry at Newcastle, on the principle of the Rocket, but with larger our readers are aware that the first vessel that was successfully propelled by steam / cylinders and wheels, was launched upon the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in Europe was named the Comet, and that she began to ply on the Clyde, between on Monday, and flew thirty miles an hour. Glasgow and Greenock.in January 1812. This vessel was built by Messrs. John A Quilt PRO Quo.—When Cicero lost his daughter,,he comforted himself by Wood and Co., ship-builders, Port Glasgow, according to a particular plan fur- . considering the fine things he could compose on the occasion. The Chronicle tells nished by Mr. Henry Bell. Helensburgh, who, after encountering and overcoming us that Sir Thomas Lawrence's family are consoled for his death by Campbell's all the indescribable dyieulties atten,loat on invention, had resolved to propel her writing his life. A man who desires to be profoundly lamented must not have a by steam. siiihotesit Mr. Bell was a house-carpenter by trade, yet he constructed talented biographer. "The family of Sir Thomas Lawrence feel a consolation an engine of three-horse power, which was destined to propel this vessel, and for the Ass of their illustrious relative in the progress making by Mr. Thomas his efforts were crowned with success. We understand that when the Comet dis- Campbell itt writing his life " continued plying, or rather, when she was eclipsed by boats of superior speed, MORE PRANKS OF JOHN FROST .—A correspondent of the Herald says—" Two her engine was sold, and was appropriated to various purposes, in and about the men were frozen to death, in.different parts of Paris, on Thursday night." Our town of Greenock. A few vents ago it was purchased by Mr. Alexander, dis- neighbours won't-even die like other people.: a plain Englishman is content to be tiller, of Greenock, and was by hint erected on his premises, for purposes con- frozen to death in one place. The cold of Paris, it seems, operated wonderfully nected with his business. When Mr. Alexander declined business, it was pur- in more respects than one on Thursday night. It affected one poor fellow with chased by ttlessrs.114'Nab and Co., of Greenock, for, if we are rightly informed, brain fever, under the operation of which " he demolished his furniture, threw the the sum of 401. sterling. It was employed by these gentlemen in the propelling of fragments Out of the window (three stories from the ground), and then jumped twelve looms, engaged in the weaving of sail-cloth, and all the machines for wind-

after them." ing, warping, callendering, &c., connected with their weaving establishment.

ZEAL OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY.—It is a well-attested fact, that during power-loom sail-cloth manufacture to a new mill erected by them on the Shaws the progress of a deadly fever which wasted the South of Ireland, it was a coin- Water, Ike Comet's engine has ceased its labours, and, we learn, bids .fair for mon thing for the parish priest to be on his knees between two rows of dying, with being sold for old metal. We must frankly conthss, that we would like to see it his ear touching the mouth of one unhappy wretch, lest his whispered confession placed in one If our museums, where it could not fail to attract the attention of should be overheard. Hundreds of these excellent men fell victims to such the curious, as well as the admirers of the arts anerscienee.i."—Gleagow Chro- labours of love. The following anecdote of the week shows that such Christian niche. We hope the frank confession of the Glasgow Chronicle will be attended zeal is not exclusively Irish. " A frightful occurrence has alarmed the vicinit'Y of to, and that the next time we visit the [Nigerian Muscutn, we shall have the Eatix-bonnes, in the department of the Lower Pyrenees. The clergyman who pleasure of contemplating this interesting bit of old iron, duly ticketed, and pre- officiates at the little village of Alba, situated on the mountains, returned on horse- served from rust and fingering, by a glass case.

back from carrying the Viaticum, when he was surrounded on the road by a num- BERLIN Marat.—This material of fashioliable ornament owes its origin to the her of wolves, who precipitated themselves upon him and his horse with all the patriotism of the Prussian ladies. In 1813-14, when the fortunes and finances rage of hunger. Some remains of bones and some morsels of flesh were found of Frederick William were at their lowest ebb, most of the females of his domi- dispersed about the spot, with traces of blood, by which the snow was tinged, Mons made an offer of their gold trinkets to the treasury, and received instead, which left no doubt respecting the terrible death this ecclesiastic. has encountered rings and necklaces of iron. The baser metal became fashionable from this cir- by becoming the victim of his zeal."—French Paper. Is it wonderful that men cumstance ; and from the neatness of the workmanship the fashion at length spread

who risk their lives as these good priests do, should be loved and obeyed ? to France, and ultimately to England.

more deserving of commiseration than the Police Magistrates: they are always on Thursday, Sir George Hampson said, " the gia.shops were a great evil: he in a quandary—perplexed with the poor, perplexed with the rich, with officers, had seen persons of the middling, and even higher classes, particularly women, with criminals, with the newspapers, with the peony-a-line men. Fortune seems to sneaking into these shops." There can be no doubt nowlhat gin-shops are, as have nothing to do but to puzzle them, for where every one else steps over the baronet says, a great evil. We hope the members of the two Houses will they are sure to stick. A poor man applied at Lambeth Street office this week look to them, when they find them trenching on the morality of their own ranks. for relief. He had lived a number of years in Stepney ; he had also lived in St. OLD Cusaams.—There is an old custom in Scotland, never to grant a light of Luke's : lie had got into the workhouse there, but been dismissed because he had to to any one out of their houses upon the first day of a new year, an instance no settlement ; and had subsequently slept one night in Wentworth Street, one of which occurred to-day in Nelson Street. A stucco-manufacturer went from night in Whitechapel watchhouse, and one night in the Refuge for the Destitute. door to door among all his neighbours, but could not obtain the light of a candle I What was to be done in such an unprecedented case ?—" Mr. Walker professed —Glasgow Chronicle. to be totally unable to decide on any plan for relief. The man, he thought, by OCCUPATIONS OF TIME.—The following novel weapon has been assigned to the sleeping in the Refuge for the Destitute, had made the parish of Cripplegate venerable divinity by a sonnetteer in the Morning Journal. liable, and therefore, application should have been made there. It was very " But Time will come, and, with his scythe, strange also that the parish of St. Luke had harboured him in the workhouse for Or, may be, with his clearer, some days, and then dismissed him. Under tivse perplexing circumstances he To keep the health of justice pure could not tell what was the best course to pursue, but would recommend the ap- Of his slaughtering propensities we have often heard, but we were not aware

plicant to try once more the parish of St. Luke." that besides felling his oxen, the god diverted himself now and then with cutting

1 MINISTERIAL OPPOSITION,—The newpapers are determined to get up an op- them up. position to Ministers in one quarter or another. The Morning Journal once en- WHERE DID MACBETH MEET THE WITCHES ?—A Scotch paper called the Elgin I deavoured to stir up the West India interest against them, but failed ; the Stan- Courier has employed a degree of learning in discussing this important question, ' dart is now endeavouring to arm the pulpit in the same cause. " Let the clergy, that would do honour to any broad sheet of the metropolis. "By those who who are men of education, and practised in methodising and arranging their know any thingiof the localities of the North of Scotland," it seems, " the spot at thoughts for the purposes of fair persuasion, let them engage in the great work of which Macbeth met the witches is almost universally supposed to have been on . mercy—the restoration of the happiness of their fellow-creatures and of the pros- the estate of Brodie, between three and four miles on the other or west side of perity of their country; let them, attend public meetings : let them employ their Forces. Such is undoubtedly the place at which Shakspeare himself supposes i pens and even their pulpits in this pious service ; let them show to the Ministry the celebrated interview-to have occurred." It appears, however, that Shakspeare

1 and to the people that, whatever be the conduct of a few mitred &Restates, the was mistaken,—that, like the Irishman of Joe Miller, crossing the Thames, he did

Church is against the one, and for the other; and the Church is, as it ought to not know which side was the other side. This is the less surprising, because "the be, still a great power." The Church is a great power, but were it to take the celebrated historian" Hector Boece, from whom he copied the anecdote, was i advice thus tendered, it would not long be great. The time is past for pulpit equally ignorant. " Brodie" being out of the question, it remains to be ascer- ,.. politics. tained where the far-famed spot really was. Our contemporary proceeds—"There A STRONG-HEADED GENERATION.— A fight took place on the 12th at Brampton is every probability in the supposition, that, as it is distinctly stated the interview Regis, between the gamekeepers of Lord Carnarvon and a party of poachers. inquestion occurred on a moor, that moor is the one in the vicinity of Gateside, " The gamekeepers contrived to secure two muskets, four gun-stocks, three hats about eight miles from Elgin, and four on this side (the east side, we suppose) of belonging to the gang, and five pheasants ; but, front the severe contusions re- Fortes. Such, at all events, was the route which Macbeth must have taken in ceived by all, on the head and other pdrts of the body (the poachers having going from Fife; to Inverness, through the town of Fortes." There is no end of shivered the butt-ends of their guns on the heads of their assailants), were unable asking questions, but the spot where the pantie quarree did "forgather" having to follow up the pursuit. It is to be feared a long time will elapse before the been so satisfactorily pointed out, we must venture to put one more :—Has it under-keepers (Win. Down and Cellaway) recover from the very severe blows been positively ascertained that they met at all ? This is a point on which both they received on the head."—Exctee Alfred. We strongly recommend Down Boethius and his copyist might be mistaken; and we should like to see it settled, and Cellaway to the attention of the phrenologists. Mercy on us ! what must were it but approximately. By the way, although the three ladies have no dis- be the thickness of the skull on which the butt-end of a musket can be shivered! tinctive character assigned them by "the overwhelming majority of Shakspeare's A Ploys YOUNG MAN.—TWO persons digging a grave in Northampton, were readers," the bard himself knew all about it. The Elgin Courier proves this, by unfortunately covered by the falling in of the earth. One of them, a boy of four- a stanza which has hitherto, very improperly no doubt, been assigned to a more teen, perished. "Tile other," says the Northampton Mercury, "who was him- modern pen. " Shakspeare seems to have been aware of this (their true character). self buried nearly two feet deep beneath the earth, preserved his recollection ; Hence the lines— " We the reins to slaughter give, and, being a pious young man, was enabled without any hope of being saved, to Ours to kill, and ours to spare; commend his soul to God." spite of danger he shall live, NEWS FROM PARIS.—" The price of English Consols is unnatural. It is not Weave the crimson web of war." warranted by our bankruptcies, our insolvencies, our dividends, our ruined trade, The witches did not at all times appear in forms that would " wean a foal." It bankrupt manufacturers, and injured and distressed commerce. It is a price not would appear from several historians that they frequently presented themselves as justified by the dissatisfaction, want, poverty, and misery of millions of people. very beautiful in their, appearance, covered with the feathers of s'wans, and armed The Lincoln County meeting is against the price. The state of the silk, glove, with spear and gelmet."—The great theatres should attend to this when Macbeth wool, and all our interests, is against the price."—Standard: To what country in is represented. A petticoat of swan feathers would be an attractive novelty. Europe does the correspondent of our contemporary belong ? PRESIDENT WASHINGTON.—This great man was of a very diffident, retiring CURIOUS Conecincsce.—Twogentlemen, (twins), of the name of Pennyfather, temper; of which he sometimes gave whimsical proofs. There was a certain died at Maulden Hill lately, aged seventy-seven years each. The journal that Colonel Humphries, a co-patriot and intimate friend of the General, whose notions records this fact adds—" It is rather a curiouscoincidence, that their entrance into of the pomp and parade of office were any thing but republican. He had long the world and departure therefrom should be so near together. What prodigious endeavoured to introduce the practice of levees, without success; at length , on Monday, and flew thirty miles an hour. Glasgow and Greenock.in January 1812. This vessel was built by Messrs. John A Quilt PRO Quo.—When Cicero lost his daughter,,he comforted himself by Wood and Co., ship-builders, Port Glasgow, according to a particular plan fur- . considering the fine things he could compose on the occasion. The Chronicle tells nished by Mr. Henry Bell. Helensburgh, who, after encountering and overcoming us that Sir Thomas Lawrence's family are consoled for his death by Campbell's all the indescribable dyieulties atten,loat on invention, had resolved to propel her writing his life. A man who desires to be profoundly lamented must not have a by steam. siiihotesit Mr. Bell was a house-carpenter by trade, yet he constructed talented biographer. "The family of Sir Thomas Lawrence feel a consolation an engine of three-horse power, which was destined to propel this vessel, and for the Ass of their illustrious relative in the progress making by Mr. Thomas his efforts were crowned with success. We understand that when the Comet dis- Campbell itt writing his life " continued plying, or rather, when she was eclipsed by boats of superior speed, MORE PRANKS OF JOHN FROST .—A correspondent of the Herald says—" Two her engine was sold, and was appropriated to various purposes, in and about the men were frozen to death, in.different parts of Paris, on Thursday night." Our town of Greenock. A few vents ago it was purchased by Mr. Alexander, dis- neighbours won't-even die like other people.: a plain Englishman is content to be tiller, of Greenock, and was by hint erected on his premises, for purposes con- frozen to death in one place. The cold of Paris, it seems, operated wonderfully nected with his business. When Mr. Alexander declined business, it was pur- in more respects than one on Thursday night. It affected one poor fellow with chased by ttlessrs.114'Nab and Co., of Greenock, for, if we are rightly informed, brain fever, under the operation of which " he demolished his furniture, threw the the sum of 401. sterling. It was employed by these gentlemen in the propelling of fragments Out of the window (three stories from the ground), and then jumped twelve looms, engaged in the weaving of sail-cloth, and all the machines for wind-

after them." ing, warping, callendering, &c., connected with their weaving establishment.

&menses—It is a custom, loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose. harmful to 11 is worthy qf remark, that the Comet's engine began its career of fame by in- 1 the brain, dangerous to the lungs ; and in the black, offensive fume thereof, troducing a new era in the navigation of Europe, and it has closed its career by nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomleis.— introducing to Scotland a new era in that manufacture by which our wooden 1 Counter/dose to Tobacco, by James the Sixth. walls are wafted to foreign climes. Messrs. MNab and Co. having removed their ZEAL OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY.—It is a well-attested fact, that during power-loom sail-cloth manufacture to a new mill erected by them on the Shaws the progress of a deadly fever which wasted the South of Ireland, it was a coin- Water, Ike Comet's engine has ceased its labours, and, we learn, bids .fair for mon thing for the parish priest to be on his knees between two rows of dying, with being sold for old metal. We must frankly conthss, that we would like to see it his ear touching the mouth of one unhappy wretch, lest his whispered confession placed in one If our museums, where it could not fail to attract the attention of should be overheard. Hundreds of these excellent men fell victims to such the curious, as well as the admirers of the arts anerscienee.i."—Gleagow Chro- labours of love. The following anecdote of the week shows that such Christian niche. We hope the frank confession of the Glasgow Chronicle will be attended zeal is not exclusively Irish. " A frightful occurrence has alarmed the vicinit'Y of to, and that the next time we visit the [Nigerian Muscutn, we shall have the Eatix-bonnes, in the department of the Lower Pyrenees. The clergyman who pleasure of contemplating this interesting bit of old iron, duly ticketed, and pre- officiates at the little village of Alba, situated on the mountains, returned on horse- served from rust and fingering, by a glass case.

back from carrying the Viaticum, when he was surrounded on the road by a num- BERLIN Marat.—This material of fashioliable ornament owes its origin to the her of wolves, who precipitated themselves upon him and his horse with all the patriotism of the Prussian ladies. In 1813-14, when the fortunes and finances rage of hunger. Some remains of bones and some morsels of flesh were found of Frederick William were at their lowest ebb, most of the females of his domi- dispersed about the spot, with traces of blood, by which the snow was tinged, Mons made an offer of their gold trinkets to the treasury, and received instead, which left no doubt respecting the terrible death this ecclesiastic. has encountered rings and necklaces of iron. The baser metal became fashionable from this cir- by becoming the victim of his zeal."—French Paper. Is it wonderful that men cumstance ; and from the neatness of the workmanship the fashion at length spread Pseetexery OF a POLICE Mammtere.—There is no class of the community ELEVATION OF GIN.—In a discussion on gin-shops, at the Middlesex Sessions, more deserving of commiseration than the Police Magistrates: they are always on Thursday, Sir George Hampson said, " the gia.shops were a great evil: he in a quandary—perplexed with the poor, perplexed with the rich, with officers, had seen persons of the middling, and even higher classes, particularly women, with criminals, with the newspapers, with the peony-a-line men. Fortune seems to sneaking into these shops." There can be no doubt nowlhat gin-shops are, as have nothing to do but to puzzle them, for where every one else steps over the baronet says, a great evil. We hope the members of the two Houses will they are sure to stick. A poor man applied at Lambeth Street office this week look to them, when they find them trenching on the morality of their own ranks. for relief. He had lived a number of years in Stepney ; he had also lived in St. OLD Cusaams.—There is an old custom in Scotland, never to grant a light of Luke's : lie had got into the workhouse there, but been dismissed because he had to to any one out of their houses upon the first day of a new year, an instance no settlement ; and had subsequently slept one night in Wentworth Street, one of which occurred to-day in Nelson Street. A stucco-manufacturer went from night in Whitechapel watchhouse, and one night in the Refuge for the Destitute. door to door among all his neighbours, but could not obtain the light of a candle I What was to be done in such an unprecedented case ?—" Mr. Walker professed —Glasgow Chronicle. to be totally unable to decide on any plan for relief. The man, he thought, by OCCUPATIONS OF TIME.—The following novel weapon has been assigned to the sleeping in the Refuge for the Destitute, had made the parish of Cripplegate venerable divinity by a sonnetteer in the Morning Journal.

From law and Scarlet fever." could not tell what was the best course to pursue, but would recommend the ap- Of his slaughtering propensities we have often heard, but we were not aware

plicant to try once more the parish of St. Luke." that besides felling his oxen, the god diverted himself now and then with cutting

who are men of education, and practised in methodising and arranging their know any thingiof the localities of the North of Scotland," it seems, " the spot at thoughts for the purposes of fair persuasion, let them engage in the great work of which Macbeth met the witches is almost universally supposed to have been on A STRONG-HEADED GENERATION.— A fight took place on the 12th at Brampton is every probability in the supposition, that, as it is distinctly stated the interview Regis, between the gamekeepers of Lord Carnarvon and a party of poachers. inquestion occurred on a moor, that moor is the one in the vicinity of Gateside, " The gamekeepers contrived to secure two muskets, four gun-stocks, three hats about eight miles from Elgin, and four on this side (the east side, we suppose) of

however, the old General was teased into acquiescence, and a levee was held. When the company had assembled, Humphries advanced with the President from an inner apartment, and as he threw open the door, he called out, in a loud voice—" General Washington, President of the United States !" Poor Wash- ington was so utterly confounded by this mighty announcement, which • came on him unexpectedly, that he could hardly go through the common ceremonial requi. site on the occasion. When the levee broke up, and the President got back once more to his own parlour, he turned to Humphries, his officious introducer, and exclaimed—" You have taken me in once, Humphries, but by Heaven you shall never take me in again."

Rem. GENTILITY.—The Bengal Hurkaru mentions that a Suttee was pre- vented in June last by the interposition of some English clergymen. The Pun. dits and Bramins seem to have been defeated in the war of argument to which the interference of the Christians have rise; and the latter expressed their confi- dence in the efficacy of their appeals to the humanity of the directors of this na- tive ceremony, because these appeals were addressed " to real gentlemen." ANATHEMA ON A Hier !—Was there ever so vile an invention as this hat !—hard, edgy, ungraceful—a saucepan, or peck-measure, with a pasteboard rim. Its best look upstartish, its worst brutal, its least offensive, imbecile. Shapeless except in deformity,—a thing that even a great painter finds impracticable, and that makes a great man look foolish. A form of uncompromising and angular lines, wherein acircle ceases to be pleasing, an oval graceful. The most ugly, unmean- ing, and uncomfortable of artificial head coverings. High crown or low crown, broad rim or narrow, flat or curved, with whatever modification of fashion, it ap- pears alike tasteless and offensive. A crown that weighs down the head, a brim that keeps off no sun; an eye-sore, a head-ache; heavy without being warm; if large not handsome, if little not elegant. An abortion of ingenuity ; the horror of taste ; a Sigma on our national propriety ; worthy only of the coat that it surmounts.

Goon SECURITY —A person who wished to borrow a small sum of money, being asked by Switt whom he proposed as security ? " I have none to offer," said the poor man," excepting my faith in my Redeemer." Swift accepted the se- curity, made the entry accordingly, with all formality, and declared that none of his debtors was more punctual than this man.—Sir W Scott's Memoirs of Swift To PARENTS AND GOVERNESSES.-4 would have all parents, governesses, and schoolmistresses, inculcate into'their children and all females, that whenever any one takes fire never to run, but immediately to throw himself or herself down fiat upon the floor, and then roll round and round. By this method you might not quench the fire without assistance, but it would aid you till assistance came, and have the happy effect (as must be obvious to any one) of preventing the increase of the flames by currents of air, and protecting the breast, neck, and face, which arc of the greatest importance; for when once prostrate on the ground the flames would go upwards, and not run along the body to the face as they do by running and jumping about enveloped in flames.—Morning Herald. Aas OF THE TORTOISE.—." When a boy of fourteen years of age, I saw a piece in a newspaper givir's an account of a gentleman's finding a land tortoise, marked with what he supposed to be the initials of some person's name, with the date of the year when marked, which, compared with that period, made the tortoise forty years old. Being soon after in the meadow of my father, I found one, which then appeared to be of full growth ; I marked my name at full length, with the day of the month and year, which was the 13th of May, 1797, which makes thirty-two years ago last May. Yesterday, my men while mowing in a meadow, not over three quarters of a mile from the place where I marked him thirty-two years ago, found the same tortoise. 1 examined him, and know, from the letters and figures, to be the same one."—Letter from Milan in the United States, July 31, 1829. BON Mor OF PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD.—" This evening we were at the Prin- cess Palestine's conversazione, where the Prince was also. He addressed me as politely as on the evening before. The Princess desired me to sit by her, and she played with him. He asked me if I understood the game of Tarrochi, which they were about to play. I answered in the negative ; upon which, taking the pack in his gaud:, he desired to know if I had ever seen such odd cards. I re- plied that they were very odd indeed. He then, displaying them, said,' Here is everything in the world to be found in these cards, the sun' i the moon, the stars ; and here said he (showing me a card), is the Pope ; and here (showing another) is the Devil. And he added, there is but one of the trio wanting, and you knew who that should be. "—Front a letter dated Rome, Jan. 1875.

FECUNDITT..—A correspondent of the Times refers to the Postman of February 22, 1709, as containing, on the authority of a French journal of the November preceding, an account of a more " wonderful wonder of.wonders" than any that has been adduced in consequence of the bicephalous exhibition that has lately excited public curiosity. " The Governess of Chateaudeun, (a place about thirty leagues from Paris), aged between forty-eight and fifty, having grown excessively big, it was believed that the swelling was occasioned by dropsy. It was resolved, therefore, to make an incision on her side : upon which performance the ope- rators were much surprised to see, instead of water, seven children,—namely, four boys and three girls, each girl adhering to one of the boys in a peculiar man- ner, each couple tied together with something resembling a Franciscan's girdle, and the single boy sitting by himself, holding in his hand a kind of little stick, and having on his head a sort of cap resembling a mitre." To this statement is gravely added, " the physicians do not know what to say on so extraordinary a case." WINTER ON THE CON rINENT.—The following description is from a Bourdeaux paragraph, dated on the last day of December. "For the last three days our river and its banks presented the aspect of the Neva—masses of ice, surcharged with snow, covered almost the whole course of the Garonne ; and heir; subject to the double periodical movement of the tide, they reach up towards Palutade, and afterwards descend to Bacalan, coming into violent collision with each other, and causing at a distance a protracted noise. As all the ships at anchor in the ' road had been carefully hauled towards the banks on both sides, the eye easily surveys the whole extent of the half frozen river, and rests with admiration upon our magnificent bridge, the grand proportions of which are pleasingly contrasted with the glittering whiteness of the blocks of ice alternately passing under its arches. Immense crowds constantly visit the bridge and the adjoining shores towards goon, notwithstanding the excessive cold, to enjoy the sight of the basin before their eyes. Shooting parties pursue their wild ducks, wild geese, and even swans, which rapidly fly across the river. Some sailors and some awkward skaters at. tempt the dangerous exercise of skating near the banks, where numerous falls prove their inexperience. The cold has' compelled the labourers to suspend the sawine* of the ice, which had been undertaken upon the Grand Canal of Am- sterdam. These labours were only advanced to a distance of half a league from that town."